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2026 BUYING LEGAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 29-30, 2026 | 3 TIMES SQUARE NYC



ESTEEMED SPEAKERS


Allison Martin

McDonald's


Jessica Williams

Mastercard


Bill Kuhne

Verizon


Vishal Anand

Disney

 



Kim Wolfe

State Street

Aaron Von Nice

ADM


LaTonya N. Ellis-Alderson

Wells Fargo



Matt Rossman

Barclays



REAL, PRACTICAL INSIGHTS

On legal department sourcing and management


ROI FROM AI


OUTSIDE COUNSEL



LEGAL ROLES

LEGAL SPEND



DATA


RISK



AGENDA

WELCOME: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

5:00PM - 8:00PM WELCOME RECEPTION, HOSTED BY LITIFY

DAY 1: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

8:00 AM Breakfast

8:45 AM Welcome | Measuring ROI in Legal – an Executive Practitioner’s Perspective Across the Legal Ecosystem

Jason Winmill

Chair

Buying Legal Council

9:00AM Keynote | Who's Governing the AI in Your Legal Ecosystem? A Practitioner Discussion on Accountability, Vendors, and Real-World Guardrails


Jess Williams

VP, Business process improvement

Mastercard

Liz Lugones

VP, Value Experience

Mitratech

9:30AM Coffee break

10:00AM By Design, Not by Default: Designing the Legal Function You Actually Need

Kim Wolfe

CAO for Legal

State Street

Ashley Miller

GC, Financial Services, N. America & Head of Legal Ops, Americas

Cap Gemini


10:30AM Next Level Legal AI: Company Intelligence and Agentic Workflows for In-House

Cecilia Ziniti

Co-Founder and CEO

GC AI

11:00AM Conversation break

11:30AM Legal Tech Adoption: Effecting Change in Your Law Department


Jeffrey Solomon

Vice President, GTM Strategy & Alliances

Onit

Michele Compasso

Legal Operations Leader

Corteva Agriscience

12:00PM LUNCH

1:00PM From Benchmark to Budget Strategy: Turn Legal Trends into Action and ROI

Emilio Bascunan

Sr. Enterprise Account Executive

LexisNexis

1:30PM Financial Services Perspectives: Legal Services Value Delivery in the Age of AI

Cailin Heilig

Senior Director, Client Solutions and Innovation

Baker Donelson

Etta Gumbs

Managing Counsel - Wealth Management

TD Bank

Allison Suflas

VP, Associate General Counsel, Litigation

Capri Holdings Ltd (Jimmy Choo & Michael Kors)

Mara Slakas Brown

Senior Managing Counsel 

BNY Mellon

2:00PM Break

2:15PM Hands-On Workshop: Build Your Outside Counsel Management Roadmap

Maui Gevero

Director, Legal Advisory

PERSUIT


3:15PM break

4:00PM Beyond The Transcript: AI, Vendor Risk, and Data Protection

LaTonya N. Ellis-Alderson

Assistant General Counsel and Vice President

Wells Fargo

Lisa Goldstein

Director

Esquire

Jim Ballowe

Chief Information Officer

Esquire

4:30PM Raise the Bar: What In-House Teams Are Now Demanding From Their Outside Partners

Aaron Von Nice

VP Legal Affairs, Regulatory & Compliance

ADM

Adam Becker

Director of Legal Operations

Cockroach Labs

Matthew Fisher

Director, Information Governance

Boehringer Ingelheim

[MODERATOR] Milly Parekh

Sr. Manager Legal Operations

Johnson & Johnson



5:15PM RECEPTION | GRACIOUSLY SPONSORED BY THOMSON REUTERS

With introductory remarks by:

Liz Zimick

President, Corporates

Thomson Reuters

7:00PM POST-CONFERENCE EVENTS

DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH

8:00AM BREAKFAST

8:45AM What Does AI Actually Cost and Save? AI ROI, Management and Governance

Jessica Williams

Vice President, Business Process Improvement

Mastercard

Allison Martin

Director, Legal Technology

McDonald's

9:30AM If AI Changes the Work, Should It Change Who You Hire?

Jennifer McIver

Legal Operations & Industry Insights

Wolters Kluwer

Robert Ingato

EVP and General Counsel

Wolters Kluwer

John Burke

Managing Director, Global Head of Outside Counsel Management

UBS AG

10:00AM Interactive Workshops

10:45AM A GCs Perspective

Mark Smolik

Chief Legal Officer

DHL Supply Chain Americas

11:30AM Automation in Action: Creating Value Across the Legal Function

Legal Industry Expert 

Title

Company



12:00PM Coffee Break

12:15PM From Black Box to Building Blocks

Bill Kuhne

VP and DGC

Verizon

Basha Rubin

Co-Founder & CEO

Priori

Vishal Anand

Director of Legal Operations

The Walt Disney Company


12:45PM Modern Legal Function: Rethinking Roles, Skills, and Outsourcing in the AI-Era Legal Team

Ellen Salamone

SVP, Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice

Axiom


1:15PM: Closing comments


SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER